CAROLYN KHAMETE MANGO
SLOUGH,BERKSHIRE
Summary
To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
12
12
years of post-secondary education
Work History
RELIGIOUS PUBLICATIONS EDITOR
EMMANUEL CELEBRATION CENTRE
SLOUGH, BERKSHIRE
11.2021 - Current
- Managed teams of staff members and monitored workmanship, correcting news articles and pieces.
- Created work schedules and deadlines and encouraged staff to meet targets for timely publication.
- Sought and investigated articles via secondary resources such as the Bible, commentaries other religious resources,or other media platforms.
- Guided and directed staff members to achieve high standards in writing and, editing and production craft.
- Worked within creative environments and responded to different competing priorities.
- Verified sources to confirm the accuracy of broadcasted information.
- Wrote interesting, informative scripts and materials for publications and online platforms.
- Assisted and planned advertising material and monitoring results.
Kiswahili Interpreter
Global Languages Services Ltd
01.2016 - 01.2019
- Facilitated verbal and written communication between parties who speak two different languages, namely, Kiswahili and English
Chief Editor-Humanities & Gender Officer
Kenya Literature Bureau
NAIROBI, NAIROBI
07.2010 - 08.2016
- Maintained effective relationships with all key stakeholders and negotiated partnerships with service providers for workshops
- Prepared manuscripts from acquisition to camera-ready artworks
- Outcome:
- Developed a strong Christian Religious Education series for Ugandan primary schools
- Developed an Islamic Religious Education series for Kenyan secondary schools
- Developed revision questions series for Kenyan primary and secondary schools
- Developed general readers in Counselling Psychology and fiction books
- Carried out assurance testing to verify facts in the manuscripts
- Supervised weekly preparation of learning materials for early childhood, high school, and tertiary levels education
- Organised and coordinated book writing workshops
- Managed and motivated a coordinated team of 20 members
- Prepared, rewrote and edited [Number] pieces per week to improve readability.
- Proofread content to guarantee the publishing of accurate and error-free text.
- Generated strategic content for special projects to achieve specific objectives.
- Used reference sources to verify dates, facts and statistics to maintain trust among target readers.
- Interviewed sources and reached out to informants to obtain stories.
Education
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (PhD) - FILM AND TELEVISION STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW
GLASGOW, UNITED KINGDOM 10.2016 - 06.2023
MASTERS OF RESEARCH (MRes) - PUBLISHING STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING
STIRLING, UNITED KINGDOM 02.2014 - 07.2015
HIGHER DIPLOMA - HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
INSTITUTE OF HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
NAIROBI, KENYA 01.2006 - 11.2006
BACHELOR OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES - EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING
STIRLING, UNITED KINGDOM 09.1989 - 02.1991
DIPLOMA - EDUCATION
KAGUMO TEACHERS COLLEGE
NYERI, KENYA 09.1983 - 07.1985
Skills
- Core Skills
- Teamwork and Time Management: High organisational skills and ability to work as part of a team and yet carry out tasks independently or with minimal supervision Ability to perform difficult tasks and work well under pressure, ensuring strict deadlines are met, as successfully demonstrated in my work experience
- Communication and Inter-Personal Skills:
- Delivered several oral/virtual and poster and academic paper presentations to both academic and non-academic audiences Written essays and magazine articles for the local church community and edited several educational manuscripts
- Leadership Skills: I have led a wide range of groups of people on editorial projects, in working environments, religious and social platforms Ability to motivate and influence team members, training, coaching and mentoring Ability to work as a part of a team as well as without supervision to achieve desired results
- IT and Project Management Skills: Great organisational skills, ability to work under pressure and to deadlines Ability to compute, organise and manage data well
- Proficient in
- Microsoft Office Word, excel, PowerPoint, web browsers
- Educational book publishing industry knowledge
- Thorough fact-checking
- Office 365 usage
Languages
English
Advanced
Timeline
RELIGIOUS PUBLICATIONS EDITOR
EMMANUEL CELEBRATION CENTRE
11.2021 - Current
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (PhD) - FILM AND TELEVISION STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW
10.2016 - 06.2023
Kiswahili Interpreter
Global Languages Services Ltd
01.2016 - 01.2019
MASTERS OF RESEARCH (MRes) - PUBLISHING STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING
02.2014 - 07.2015
Chief Editor-Humanities & Gender Officer
Kenya Literature Bureau
07.2010 - 08.2016
HIGHER DIPLOMA - HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
INSTITUTE OF HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
01.2006 - 11.2006
BACHELOR OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES - EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING
09.1989 - 02.1991
DIPLOMA - EDUCATION
KAGUMO TEACHERS COLLEGE
09.1983 - 07.1985
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